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Down the Gullet of the Space-God!
God-Seed Exposure Table
1
You cease to age, becoming immune to
disease, hunger, and the ravages of time!
4
You spawn 1d6 identical duplicates of yourself, at
least one of whom will be evil!
2You become hideously mutated!
5You evolve to a being of pure energy!
3 You become insane! 6You gain incredible
superpowers!
IntroductionAfter witnessing the birth and
death of countless universes, the mighty space-god Kosmo,
Smasher of Suns, and Pulverizer of Planets, has died.
Even now his body drifts through the void of darkest
space. Every faction in the
known universe, from governments and gangsters to
wackos and warlords, wants to claim his body. The
Intergalactic Brotherhood of Celestial Guardians has
entrusted your heroes with the task of entering Kosmo's
corpse and retrieving the core-consciousness from his brain
so they can forge a new space-god. The balance of the
universe is in your hands!
Kosmo's corporeal form is that
of a giant humanoid dressed in baroque space armor. He lies
in repose now, drifting silently through space. His body is
impervious and indestructible even as it is slowly consumed
by the flickering Godfire within. The only way into His
body is through His mouth. Any other means of entrance
is disturbing to contemplate and useless to try. Kosmo's
innards are not flesh but cosmic ur-metal. It's a Kirby-
esque nightmare of
technorganic machinery and dying synapses still sparking
with Godfire. Kosmo's body contains its own atmosphere
for reasons beyond comprehension and gravity
determined by the heroes' collective understanding of
“up” and “down.”
1) Gullet: This passage leads
from Kosmos' gaping mouth to his stomach. Watch the teeth! It's
wide enough for the entire team to walk side-by-side. Due to
gravitonic peristalsis, the heroes can enter through the gullet but
cannot exit. They need to find
another way out.
2) Stomach: The nuclear fires of Kosmo's stomach are where he
digested comets and star dragons. A narrow metal catwalk
spans the fire-pit. Once the heroes are half-way across, they
are attacked by atomic enzymes, which resemble fire-
breathing space-bats.
3) Immuno-Factory: The machinery of Kosmos' immune
system still feverishly produces
cosmic leukocytes, which resemble crystalline blobs that
shoot lasers. The heroes are invading organisms and will come
under fire. The immuno-factory continues to create more
leukocytes each round until the heroes shut down the machinery.
4) Heart: Kosmo's giant, ruby
heart is fractured and fills the room with blood-red light. Repair
spores futilely try to patch it up. They ignore the heroes unless
they try to interfere with their
work. Tapping into the heart through science or psionics will
give the heroes a map of Kosmo's body.
5) Right Arm: The mechanisms
for Kosmo's plutonic destructo-beams are housed here. Plasmic
fusion elementals escape from the cracked reactor and attack the
heroes. The heroes can salvage valuable cosmic fuel rods from the
wreckage.
6) Left Arm: The mighty
computers of Kosmo's celestial radar are located in his wrist.
Heroes can hack into the celestial radar and observe any point in
the universe—any point. Observant heroes will notice
several rival spaceships
converging outside Kosmo.
7) Head: Kosmo's giant crystalline brain houses his core
consciousness. Heroes must hack into the brain through science or
psionics to retrieve the consciousness. Each hero is
assaulted by a mind phantom that tries to eat his or her
memories and personality until nothing is left but a hollow shell
ready to receive the dead god's mind.
8) Loins: A pool of luminescent quicksilver sits in the center of
this spacious chamber. This is Kosmo’s God-Seed. Any hero who
comes in contact with the God-Seed must roll 1d6 on the
God-Seed Exposure Table.
9) Legs: The heroes can exit Kosmo through the exhaust ports
of his interstellar rocket boots. They need to avoid the explosive
dangers of the combustion chambers. Once outside, they are
immediately confronted by a rival
faction of Kosmo-looters.
By Joshua LH Burnett
Released under Creative Commons Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
For the QAGS statistics of the
monsters within Kosmo, go to:
stegosaurusstudios.blogspot.com/
2011/03/kosmo-monsters.html